SQL Contract Job Trends in Bristol

SQL (Structured Query Language)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring SQL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 30 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing SQL 49 33 68
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.77% 5.23% 7.13%
As % of the Programming Languages category 21.03% 17.65% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 19 52
10th Percentile £378 £338 £378
25th Percentile £450 £353 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.94% -11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £582
90th Percentile £575 £655 £686
South West median daily rate £475 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £51.57
25th Percentile - £25.26 £55.79
Median hourly rate - £27.13 £66.64
Median % change year-on-year - -59.29% +11.06%
75th Percentile - £37.87 £77.55
90th Percentile - £53.85 £81.81
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £27.13 £48.75
% change year-on-year +32.72% -44.36% -15.22%

All Programming Languages
Bristol

SQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 233 187 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 27.44% 29.64% 25.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 77 166
10th Percentile £293 £351 £300
25th Percentile £412 £406 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £576
90th Percentile £649 £686 £678
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 46 38
10th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 £55.88
25th Percentile - £62.00 £63.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.76%
75th Percentile - £68.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.58 £70.00 -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £65.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.15% -

SQL
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SQL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

SQL job vacancy trend in Bristol

SQL
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SQL in Bristol over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SQL in Bristol

SQL
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing SQL

SQL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle Application Server
1 5 (10.20%) SharePoint
1 5 (10.20%) Skype for Business
2 2 (4.08%) Apache
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) AWS
2 17 (34.69%) Azure
3 13 (26.53%) Power Platform
4 11 (22.45%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.12%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.12%) SaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) OCI
7 2 (4.08%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.04%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) DHCP
1 5 (10.20%) DNS
1 5 (10.20%) Skype
1 5 (10.20%) Unified Communications
2 3 (6.12%) 2G
2 3 (6.12%) 5G
2 3 (6.12%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (4.08%) 4G
3 2 (4.08%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) Power BI
2 8 (16.33%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (14.29%) BigQuery
4 6 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (10.20%) Big Data
5 5 (10.20%) Oracle ODI
5 5 (10.20%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (10.20%) Star Schema
6 4 (8.16%) MySQL
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (6.12%) ClickHouse
7 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
7 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
7 3 (6.12%) Oracle Database
7 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
8 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
8 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) DBeaver
1 5 (10.20%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle APEX
3 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 2 (4.08%) JIRA
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.04%) SoapUI
General
1 16 (32.65%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 11 (22.45%) Finance
4 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.20%) Banking
6 3 (6.12%) Local Government
6 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.08%) Publishing
7 2 (4.08%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Senior
2 12 (24.49%) Data Engineer
3 10 (20.41%) Developer
4 5 (10.20%) Analytics Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Business Intelligence Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Quality Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Analytics Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.12%) Applications Support
6 3 (6.12%) ETL Tester
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Applications Support
6 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Support Officer
6 3 (6.12%) Tester
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) DBA
7 2 (4.08%) Site Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 4 (8.16%) React
3 3 (6.12%) Node.js
3 3 (6.12%) SOAP
4 2 (4.08%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.08%) JMS
4 2 (4.08%) REST
4 2 (4.08%) XML
4 2 (4.08%) XSD
5 1 (2.04%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.04%) JWT
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (2.04%) OAuth
5 1 (2.04%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.04%) Playwright
5 1 (2.04%) PySpark
5 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Replication
2 5 (10.20%) PKI
3 4 (8.16%) IoT
4 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (6.12%) Mobile App
5 2 (4.08%) NB-IoT
5 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Clustering
6 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Windows
1 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
2 4 (8.16%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.73%) Agile
2 17 (34.69%) Analytics
3 13 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (26.53%) ETL
4 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.45%) DevOps
6 8 (16.33%) Change Management
6 8 (16.33%) ITIL
6 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
7 7 (14.29%) AI
7 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 7 (14.29%) Validation
8 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.24%) Data Science
8 6 (12.24%) Dimensional Modelling
8 6 (12.24%) Migration
8 6 (12.24%) Storytelling
9 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
9 5 (10.20%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Python
2 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
2 6 (12.24%) PL/SQL
3 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.16%) Java
5 2 (4.08%) C#
5 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.04%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.24%) Degree
3 5 (10.20%) CCNA
3 5 (10.20%) CCNP
3 5 (10.20%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (10.20%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (10.20%) Master's Degree
3 5 (10.20%) MCSE
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.08%) OCA
4 2 (4.08%) OCP
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
1 6 (12.24%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) PERC
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 5 (10.20%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) SCCM
1 5 (10.20%) Terraform
1 5 (10.20%) WSUS
2 3 (6.12%) Ansible
2 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.08%) Data Guard
3 2 (4.08%) Grafana
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.49%) Oracle
3 6 (12.24%) Databricks
3 6 (12.24%) Google
4 5 (10.20%) Cisco
4 5 (10.20%) SolarWinds
4 5 (10.20%) Splunk
4 5 (10.20%) Veeam
4 5 (10.20%) VMware
5 2 (4.08%) Blue Prism
5 2 (4.08%) BMC
5 2 (4.08%) Remedy
5 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.04%) Facebook
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce